I am either a complete dork/geek or a teacher...or maybe both. I just made a set of jeopardy cards for my social studies unit on slavery. Instead of labeling them '600', '500', '400', '300', and '200', I opted to label them '600', '5x10>2', '20x20', '600/2', and '2>3x5>2'.

I think the kids will get a kick out of it. At least i did.

After I figured out the fact that my budget this semester is going to be rather pitiful, I got on with my Saturday. I had promised my mother i would somehow teach her how to use her new "hand held computer" as her school system is refering to palm pilot's. Now, I don't know how to use one of these things. I have mildly wanted one, more because ( Read more... )

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The superintendent has cancelled school tomorrow due to the extreme cold weather. YEA!

the unit consisted of:

13 pages of lesson plans
11 pages of handouts
10 or so pages of student work.

fairly respectable, right?

*Something that could become very interesting turns up when you least expect it ( Read more... )

I created a new lj, because some people were apparently looking for me under my normal screenname. So I made one. And it didn't ask for a lj code. very confusing.

I hope that this reaches the appropriate people. Due to an increase in the amount of work I have to accomplish this weekend, I can't host the FK marathon I mentioned earlier. If I get enough encouragement, I will reschedule for later in the year...preferably after all of this stuff has been handed in. Sorry for any inconvenience.

heather

I have discovered that I cheer up remarkably well if I let myself purchase books on obscure topics. So today, I got a book on Fitting patterns to larger bodies, and another on the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. Hopefully that will help.